If you’ve been trying to keep up with everything shipping in Microsoft Fabric, this January 2026 round-up is for you—covering the biggest updates across the platform, from new AI-powered catalog experiences and OneLake governance improvements to enhancements in Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence, and Data Factory. If you haven’t already, make sure FabCon Atlanta … Continue reading “Fabric January 2026 Feature Summary”
What if generating embeddings in Eventhouse didn’t require an external endpoint, callout policies, throttling management, or per‑request costs? That’s exactly what slm_embeddings_fl() delivers: a new user-defined function (UDF) that generates text embeddings using local Small Language Models (SLMs) from within the Kusto Python sandbox, returning vectors that you can immediately use for semantic search, similarity … Continue reading “Create Embeddings in Fabric Eventhouse with built-in Small Language Models (SLMs)”
As 2025 ends, we’re taking a moment to reflect on Microsoft Fabric’s second year in the market and the collective progress made alongside our community, customers, and partners. What began as a unified vision for data and AI has grown into a platform adopted by more than 28,000 organizations worldwide, anchored by OneLake and shaped … Continue reading “Microsoft Fabric 2025 holiday recap: Unified Data and AI Innovation”
Fabric Runtime provides seamless integration within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, delivering a powerful environment for data engineering and data science projects built on Apache Spark. Fabric Runtime 2.0 is now available in Experimental Public Preview (EPP). This next-generation runtime is purpose-built for large-scale data computations in Microsoft Fabric and introduces key features and components that … Continue reading “Fabric Runtime 2.0 (Preview)”
This release brings consistent, secure, and scalable configuration management directly into notebooks—streamlining environment-aware development and CI/CD workflows without hardcoding. Why it Matters As projects grow, managing environment-specific settings can become complex. With Variable Library support in notebooks, you can: Key Highlights The following is an example of how to use Variable Library in notebook. Resources
